I would use several properties files and load the one needed for the current
environment.
<property file="${os.name}.properties"/>
Jan
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cyril Sagan [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Dezember 2013 00:08
> An: Ant Users List
> Betreff: Is it possible to get "location semantics" with <condition/>
>
> I don't think it is possible, but I wanted to confirm here.
>
> My goal is to be platform agnostic, and not get mixed separators in
> path names, in order to accomplish this I don't think I can use
> <condition/>.
>
> While I prefer to use "pure ant", in this case I think the <if/> is
> better than lots of ${path.separtor}'s in strings.
>
> Consider this example:
>
> OUTPUT: (note mixed separators)
> C:\temp>ant -version
> Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
>
> C:\temp>ant
> Buildfile: build.xml
> [echo] dir.works = C:\temp\false\demo\path
> [echo] dir.fails = C:\temp/false/demo/path
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
> From this build.xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <project name="condition-property-semantics-test">
> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
>
> <if>
> <istrue value="${some.property}" />
> <then>
> <property name="dir.works"
> location="${basedir}/true/option" />
> </then>
> <else>
> <property name="dir.works"
> location="${basedir}/false/demo/path" />
> </else>
> </if>
>
> <!-- not equivalent to above on windows, ${dir}
> will have both forward and backward slashes -->
> <condition property="dir.fails"
> value="${basedir}/true/option"
> else="${basedir}/false/demo/path">
> <istrue value="${some.property}" />
> </condition>
>
> <echo>dir.works = ${dir.works}</echo>
> <echo>dir.fails = ${dir.fails}</echo> </project>
>
> Anyone have any other suggested solution? Thanks.
>
> --Cyril
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